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Gin m RAISE IS
NEEDED-GANDLER
Municipality Is in Bad Financial
Way—Revision of Budget
Is Begun.
Aiderman John S. Candler, chairman
of the council finance committee, was
at work today with Comptroller Gold
smith preparing a tentative revision of
the municipal budget.
Aiderman Candler said the city was
strained financially. All the depart
ments are crying for more money. He
said the only means he saw for the city
to get its finances adjusted was to raise
the tax rate from 1.25 per cent to 1.50
per cent.
Indications are that all the "nest
eggs" provided in the budget in Janu
ary will be taken out when the new
budget is presented to council in Octo
ber. The October budget is merely a
readjustment of the January budget.
Funds are running so short that many
of the appropriations made just to start
Improvements will be recalled.
Thousands of dollars was thus dis
tributed. Much of the money Is lying
idle without any chance of it being
spent this year. It is very uncertain
which will be recalled. Every council
man will strenuously oppose the recall
'f any funds from his pet schemes.
How $3,000,000 Was Spent.
F. A. Quillian, chairman of the bond
commission, today completed a state
ment of the expenditures of the $3,-
000,000 bond issue money. The items
include the premiums from the sale of
bonds.
Os the $914,943.54 water bond money
<758,335.21 has been expended.
Os the $101,411.36 of hospital bond
Honey $97,437.97 has been expended.
Os the $50,705.68 crematory bond
money $12,987.50 has been expended.
Os the $610,202.36 of school bond
money $581,750.53 has been spent.
Os the $1,359,498.06 of sewer bond
money $ , 64,901.13 has been spent.
THROWING JAVELIN
IS NOW “COMING IN’’
AS WOMAN’S SPORT
LONDON, Sept. 20. -Javelin throw
ing is "corning in" as a sport sor 1
women.
Miss Dora Swinburne Roberts, a ;
young Oxfoid girl, Is England’s pioncet
lady javelin thrower, and she can throw; |
the javelin, which is eight feet long,
steel-tipped, ami weighs over a pound
and a half, a distant • of 78 feet 6
inches.
Tlie javelin is held at about the point
of balance, ami thr thrower sprints for
about twenty yards up to what may bo
called the “take off" mark, on the grass,
where the javelin leaves the hand.
At the mark a sudden stop is made,
and the thrower- giving it a twist as
it leaves the hand- hurls the javelin
with left leg thrust forward and the
rest of the body bent backward, to get
the greater impetus.
It is against the rules to fall over
the line, as the novice invariably does,
before the javelin touches the ground
at the other end.
"Javelin throwing is one of the best
and most graceful exercises that could
be devised," said F. A. M. Webster, the
English champion javelin thrower, who
is coaching Miss Roberts
"It is especially useful to women, as
it develops the muscles of the neck and
back as no other sport does. One must
also be a good sprinter, jumper and
w eight throw er before one can succeed
as a javelin thrower. Also ft is en
tirely inexpensive, and can be practiced
in nearly any place.
LAWYER GIBSON WINS
AND LOSES IN BATTLE
OVER SZABO ESTATE
NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—Burton W.
Gibson, the attorney accused of mur
dering Countess Rosa Menschik Szabo,
lost and won a point today in his ef
forts to retain the post of executor of
the dead woman's estate.
Surrogate Fowler refused to receive
a secret and confidential statement
stating what disposition Gibson had
made of the estate, but later granted
Charles Goldzier. counsel for Gibson,
until Tuesday to file a brief challeng
ing the right of the consulate of Aus
tria-Hungary to have Gibson removed
as executor of the estate.
The ground upon which counsel for
Gibson challenges the consulate is that
ft is not interested in the estate and
has no right, under the treaty between
the X’nlted States ami Austria-Hungary
to take the action that is set up.
This international question was
raised at the outset of the light to have
Gibson removed from the care of money
left by the countess.
"I do this," said Surrogate Fowler in
granting the attorney time to question
the jurisdiction of the court to hear the
foteign complaint, "because I am moved
by sympathy for the unfortunate situa
tion of Mr. Gibson. Ender our present
system of jurisprudence a man is pre
sumed to be innocent until he is con
victed, and then the law takes its
course. I am not disposed to place any
unnecessary obstacles in the path of
this unfortunati man and I will there
fore give him time to present the law
on the subject of the jurisdiction of
this court."
L. & N. EXPRESS CAR
LOOTED OF $70,000;
OFFICERS ON TRAIL
new ORLEANS, sept. 2<>. The au
thmities were notified todav that an
'Xpr. S ear of the I, and N. railload
" ! U robbed of $70,000 between I’ensH
k a. Fla., and Flom iton, Ala., Wi dnes
■ d.o mot ning,
’ ■ '"f* here today to inve-ti
-1!1 merwy was taken from a
package containing $75,000.
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Singer Thinks Atlanta Will Put Wagner on Map Again
LAUDS CITY'S MUSICAL TASTE
Mrs. Carthew-Yorstoun To Be
Heard in Sunday Recital at
Auditorium-Armory.
Grand opera may some day owe much
to Atlanta if the pet theory of Mrs.
Carthew-Yorstoun, formerly Miss Nel
lie Knight, of Atlanta, and Georgia’s
single contribution to the list of world
prima donnas, proves to be correct.
Mrs. Yorstoun believes it is in Atlanta’s
power to bring America’s musical taste
back to him who made modern opera—
Wagner.
In an engaging interview' on things
both musical and personal, Mrs. Yor
stoun, who will sing two Wagnerian
arias and a Gounod selection at the
Auditorium on Sunday, lent credulity to I
her theory by her enthusiasm for the |
greatest of music dramas and Atlan
ta’s keen response to the intellectual
in music.
“Why, they tell me," she said, glow
ing with her subject, "that the per
formance of Tannhauser was the flow- I
er of the Metropolitan’s week in At- I
lanta las»t spring, a marvelous thing in l
the face of a week of the most brilliant >
of the Italian operas with the array I
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Mrs. Carthew-Yorstoun. formerly Aliss Nellie Knight. Geor
gia's only representative on th? operatic stage. She will be
heard in concert at the Auditorium Sunday.
of Italian singers that came to Atlan
ta.”
Wagner Ruthlessly Slaughtered.
It is her firm conviction that Wag
ner, almost done to death for America
by the screeching of German tenors and
the hammering and. yammering of or
chestras in the years of his first vogue
on this side of the Atlantic, will again
come Into ills own.
And in Atlanta’s appreciation for this
gigantic musical architect, who sought
in undreamed realms for strangely <
beautiful themes to depict the story of
the human soul, she finds more than a
hopeful sign. It is prophetic of the
fact tlie dreamer of Bayreuth will again
overshadow all composers for Ameri
cans.
Atlanta, she believes, will again put
Wagner on tlie American musical map.
Mrs. Yorstoun, who has just experi
enced four years enforced absence from
the operatic stage because of ill health,
was in high humor at the thought that
she again is able to resume her sing
ing.
To Be Heard in Concert.
Atlanta is to have the first opportu
nity on Sunday of hearing her after
many years. She sang here before fin
ishing her musical education in Europe.
Tlie Romeo and Juliet aria of Gounod,
Elizabeth Enterance aria from Tann
hauser and Isolde's Death Song from
Tristan and Isolde will be her offerings
at the Auditorium.
Opera is her chosen field. After it.
she says, the concert stage is cold. Ora
torio she finds brilliant and beautiful,
but too glaclle. It is tn the warmth of
the trappings and colorings of opera
that the artist loses herself and finds
the role most suited to her genius.
"I would always sing opera,” she said.
“The concert stage Is too chill. In op
era I lose myself, my identity; I be- l
come the character I portray. The
whole story of the part, the anguish
and the joy, becomes mine,
"That is why I would always sing
Wagner. There is something in tilt
power of his music, the depth of his
tragedies and the heights of his ec,ta
eles that carries you away with him
into ills tonal imaginings ”
As she spoke. Mrs. Yorstoun's face
lighted and she might have stepped
from tlie cozy little sitting room of Mrs.
Thaddeus Horton's home into some dim I
Wagnerian wood, where a goddess
awaited for the twilight of her race.
Appeared in Covent Garden.
Mr, Yorstoun Is perhaps best re
j membered in musical Atlanta ns Miss
Nellie Knight, when she appeared here
a« a soloist and protegee of Madame
Angier. She has always been well
known socially
Leaving Atlanta f<-r wider musical
fields, she went to N v w Yelk and later |
’THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1912.
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to London. Berlin and Paris. Aside
from engagements in Covent Garden,
her operatic career was staged in Ger
many. In Strassburg, Metz and Co
logne she sang in 25 roles, some of them
the most difficult of Wagner's. Her
singing in Aida is still remembered.
Among her Wagnerian roles which
•will be heard at tlie Auditorium as the
feature of the fall municipal concerts
Mrs. Yorstoun numbers Tannhauser,
the Rheingold, Gotteidammerung, Loh
engrin and Die Valkeries.
With her husband, Major Carthew-
Yorstouh. retired from tlie British army
service, she is stopping with Mrs. Thad
deus Horton, in Eighth street. Tlie
Carthew-Yorstouns expect to be in At
lanta through the winter.
LOW SALARY BLAMED
FOR BANK CLERK’S THEFT
PHILADELPHIA. PA„ Sept. 20.—"1
feel safe in saying that he is here as
tlie result of a mistaken policy on the
part of many of our banks in not pay
ing adequate salaries to th ir employ
ees,” declared counsel for C. L. Mc-
Cracken, who was charged with embez
zlement. in making a pica for mercy.
McCracken was a former employee in
a bank In a Pennsylvania town, and
had pleaded guilty to embezzling $6.-
500.
Although married, with a family of
four small children, McCracken, the
counsel said, was employed at a salary
of sl2 a week.
OUR STORE will be closed to
morrow until six P. M. ac
count
HOUDA Y
TI7ILL BE OPEN from six until
ten P. M.
Eiseman Bros. U nc -)
11-13-15-17 Whitehall St.
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Up and Down
Peachtree
Absurd Rules at
Terminal Station.
A striking illustration of the absurd
lengths to which a blind adherence to
technical rules may be carried was fur
nished at tlie Terminal station yester
day to the indignation of a small crowd
of onlookers.
A youth, who had barely missed
death in a motorcycle accident and
was badly crippled, was being wheeled
in a chair by a friend, accompanied by
his aged aunt, who was taking him
back to her home in Alabama. At the
gate leading to the train section the
three were stopped.
The man aiding his injured friend
had no ticket, and there was no time
to get a permit to pass through. It
would be necessary for some one to
help the cripple aboard the train. The
white-haired aunt pleaded with the
Terminal agent that the young man be
allowed to go through to help her
nephew. The man added his plea. The
invalid added his. They were all vain.
"Another party waiting behind you,’’
said the ticket man, not deigning to
answer the appeals.
The aged aunt was ready to weep
with indignation, but the railroad man
remained unmoved. A negro was final
ly summoned and he wheeled the chair
on down to the train while the friend
who had been barred wasted the best
part of a select vocabulary on a deaf
railload and its deafer servants.
GEORGIAN WANT ADS
FILL ALL WANTS.
BOTH PHONES bOOO.
DRIVER OF DEATH
miMED
Attorney Asks Protection for
State Witnesses in Rosen
thal Murder Case.
NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—As a result
of threats made against witnesses for
the stat® In the Rosenthal case the dis
trict attorney’s office will ask Judge
GotT for a court order to enforce pro
tection of persons whose testimony is
deemed necessary for the conviction of
Lieutenant Charles Becker.
Louis Shapiro, driver of the gray au
tomobile in which the Rosenthal assas
sins escaped after the killing, has been
threatened with death.
Small Results
From Waldo Quiz
NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—Police Com
missioner Waldo was recalled for the
second time by the aldermahlc graft in
vestigating committee today and proved
a fiery witness. Emory R. Buckner, at
torney for the committee, attempted to
learn from Waldo details of the ad
ministrative policy of the police de
partment and how far this is dictated
by Mayor Gaynor.
In response to the first questions put
to him, the commissioner said that he
had no knowledge of apy letters sent
him accusing his secretary. Winfield R.
Sheehan. <
The commissioner was then ques
tioned as to his appointment of certain
policemen after they had been refused
by his predecessors.
The commissioner admitted that he
had appointed to the department 'men
who afterward proved to be crooks, but
declared that his hands were tied and
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Night 25c to $1.50; Mat. 25c to SI.OO.
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THE ATLANTA
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AL G. FIELD
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Entire Engagement of Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday, Mat-'
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Nights 25c to $1; Matinee 25c
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OPENING OF SEASONJ NEXT
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GIRL BATHERS IN
MOBILE BAY GET
COAT OF CREOSOTE
MOBILE, ALA., Sept. 20. Many
young women of Mobile society, as well
as other persons, of both sexes and in
varying walks of life, were uninten
tional bla’ckface comedians last night.
The trouble happened in the waters
of Mobile bay when numerous bathing
parties went in for an evening dip. A
big lighter, laden with creosote and
beached during the recent storm, had
capsized and emptied its black contents
into the water.
At Monroe park and elsewhere, how
ever, there was not light enough to see
the floating scum, and it was not until
the first bathers began emerging that
they found themselves coated with a
tarry substance that would not wash
off.
that he was appoint men cer
tified by the civil service commission.
Specific cases were given by Attorney
Buckner of bad appointments, and the
commissioner each time fell back upon
his defense that He was obliged to ac
cept the men given to him by the civil
service commissioners.
At no time could Mr. Buckner lead
Mr. Waldo to admit that he should
have investigated the records of the
men appointed.
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To D. W. BOWIE and the OCTOPUS:
Shall R. C. TURNER, our brilliant young ‘‘pro- 1
gressive” be citv electrician or the* OCTOPUS I
(GEORGIA RAILWAY & ELECTRIC COMPANY)i|
That $200,000 annual reduction in electricity rates E
to the people of Atlanta beginning January, 1913, in-■
stigated you, others and the OCTOPUS, did it not?
Did you know that the public is confident that I
the OCTOPUS, with its thousands of tentacles over!
Fulton county, had you publish that two-cohimn ad in I
the Atlanta papers? The OCTOPUS will pay the I
bills, too; now won’t it”?
As to your paragraph two—“notoriety” in the!
press, for Turner put the public wise, did it not ? You, 1
too. seem to be a pastmaster in the art of press “no- 1
toriety;” now aren’t you?
As to your paragraph three—you can not substan- 1
tiate a single charge as to Turner’s violation of duty. I
legally, morally or otherwise; can you?
As to Turner not carrying out his contract with I
you, the OCTOPUS does not know that I hold youi I
personal receipt and signed by you showing that Tur- I
ner’s contract with you has been carried out; does I
OCTOPUS? Whv do von embarrass yourself and I
OCTOPUS?
As to your “k-a-r-d,” Turner can not afford t<
spend his hard earned money to answer ch;nt I
which specify nothing and say nothing. OCTOPUS' I
I thought you with all of your journalistic ability and I
legal powers around you could do better than y° u I
have. But you have done your best. You and the I
OCTOPUS know that, don’t you? , I.
Pooh, pooh! Whiff! M’hiffle! for the I
and you (the man Friday of the OCTOPUS). The I
public knows the truth.
1 answer you with the authority of “Topsy Tur
ner, the only city electrician Atlanta has ever P os; T' f 'il
ed—the old newspaper route carrier who once worke ■
under me when we were boys together struggling
a livelihood. He still retains a character unsullied air|
untarnished and with a splendid abilitv, despite tlH , |
efforts of you and the OCTOPUS to cast aspersions!
upon the veritable “young man of the hour." I
“Topsy," upon my solicitation, allowed me to l'> I
some “notoriety.” You had some one else to writ ■
your “notoriety” and you signed it.
CARL HUTCHESON'.
September 20, 1912.
(Advertisement.)
WITH BUT HALF OF
HIS BRAIN MAN GETS
ALONG FAIRLY WELL
LONDON, Sept. 20.—A case of
who gets along very eomfortablv m , an
only half his brain lias just been hr " ’ h
to the notice of the surgeons hero ° UBht
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the head. The surgeons immeifiatelv , "
cided to remove the injured part' ’k,
half-of the brain. In five weeks th. t “
was about again, as usual . man
evident that he had forgotten how to rl??
write and cipher. A teacher was nr ’
cured for him. and in rive month, h°.‘
could read, write and calculate as wen as
The military authorities, however o
slder that a man with only half a brain
is exempt from service In the army <•
sequently they have allowed him a n??
sion, on which he now lives with h u
parents. nis
Besides the pension, a scientific soo
ty allows him $250 a year on condlti™
that from time to time he lets i ts In e“
bers make experiments with him.
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4>y consulting The Georgian Rent Bulle.
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